Professionalism of evaluators carrying out external quality asessment of general education school activity: situation in Lithuania

Education and Culture documents (2004) point out that assessment of school activity quality is a mandatory precondition striving for implementation of the Lisbon strategy. EU and national documents (Lithuanian State Long-Term Development Strategy, 2002; State Education Strategy, 2003; Programme of Government of the Republic of Lithuania, 2004; Education Monitoring Proce¬dure 2005;) are implemented in Lithuania on a par with other countries that carry out European edu¬cation reform; new models for quality management of education as a service are introduced as well as emerging modern culture of self-evaluation and evaluation of activity. The main focus of the methodologies (Internal Audit Methodology for Comprehensive Schools, 2004; External Audit of School Management and Educational Proceeding Improvement, 2005; Description of Procedure for Internal Quality Audit of Comprehensive School Activity, 2007; Description of Procedure for Inter¬nal Quality Assessment of Comprehensive School Activity, 2009) under implementation is laid not on the analysis of documents regulating the activity of the organisation and on imposing punish¬ments but on the quality assessment when the process is observed directly, when there occurs com¬munication with teachers, school learners, school administration, other school staff members, stakeholders and when the outcome is evaluatedVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij